The veteran actress recently graced the cover of Shape magazine rocking a mesh top over a yellow bikini, and at 55 years of age she has no problem turning heads with her amazing figure!

However, despite her stunning cover shot, Sharon admits that staying fit gets harder and harder every year, and it wasn't always easy for her to accept the changes she was seeing with her body.

She reveals:

"There was a point in my 40s where I went into the bathroom with a bottle of wine, locked the door, and said, 'I'm not coming out until I can totally accept the way I look right now.' … I examined my face in the magnifying mirror, and I looked at my body, and I cried and cried and cried. Then I said to myself, 'You're going to get old now. How do you want to do that?'"

At that moment, Sharon made a very conscious decision to take control of her own body and immediately began working on establishing healthier habits:

"I thought, 'I'd like to age like a dancer.' I want to keep my body in shape like that. I want to do the work. I like to dance and stretch. And I'm going to the gym."

In terms of a diet, Sharon says she likes to keep things fairly simple. However, she did say there's one thing she completely cut out of her kitchen:

"I used to love wine, but I don't drink at all now. I think, at a certain point, it's better for women not to have any alcohol because it can make your face, breasts and midsection get very bloated."

Obviously all of this things are working pretty well, because she still looks fantastic!!

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Rich women usually age better than real world women because they have access to the best diets, the best cosmetic procedures and the best surgeons etc. And rich women, in general, tend to marry wealthier more educated males (per capita) too which doubles their ability to pay for the best of everything. But women that age have the worst downside of all: infertility. If I only had two choices of women in the world: one really really really smoking hot 55 year old woman and one really really really ugly 25 year old woman ….. the ugly one would HAVE to win. The only way I would hook up with her would be if she allowed me to father a family on the side like most gigolos do. But i wouldnt do it behind her back like most gigolos do. I dont believe in cheating even in the name of procreating.
Women age horribly in the most important area. The womb. If my dad had been a woman and my mom a man…………his second family would have been his favorite family instead of his 3rd.
But I digress. She looks good though compared to most women that age. By the time most women reach 55, They have spent 55 years NEVER working out. NEver eating right.